Energy drains
Let's shore them up forever, ffs
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Think about the energy drains in your day. Maybe your energy drain is a job that sucks, or something like pain or an injury, or maybe it’s something more abstract like the energy spent navigating the gap between who you are versus how you present in the world. In fact, make a list of energy drains in your life and pick one to write about now, while saving the rest to your main ideas file to write about another time. Pick whichever item on the list that is calling to you the loudest, but, try to pick the one that seems the most daunting to write about because there’s probably the most juice in the one that feels hard and resistant to your dissection.
As you write, consider questions like how you recharge after dealing with this, how you might eliminate it from your life, how you might not be telling yourself the full trust about why it’s in your life in the first place, and what might happen if it were to fade away. Let’s write.
